"If SECONDS came out today, with its horror lens firmly trained on themes of extreme plastic surgery, dread of aging, and get-happy-quick schemes, it would likely have found a ready A24 audience and a series of Oscar nods. But in 1966, audiences hated it."

“THE MUPPET MOVIE, like all truly great art, focuses myriad points of anguished thought and feeling into a single beam of light to demonstrate, with a simplicity that belies its depth, its own magnificence.”

"Throughout their body of work, Powell and Pressburger return to the question of whether life and art can co-exist, and if the urge to live or the urge to create will win out in the end."

Hello Loneliness, I Think I’m Gonna Die: Bob Fosse’s Dance with the Five Stages of Grief in ALL THAT JAZZ

In this house there is only one acceptable AI

"The most enchanting thing about THE HUDSUCKER PROXY is its commitment to the bit. The Coen brothers put all their cards on the table, wholly investing in a fictional world that borrows from the past while bargaining on the future."

Right at the top of my list of all time favorite movies—

"MILLER'S CROSSING is a tribute film, a mafia movie made of noir’s most elegant frames: Scarface, The Conformist, Le Samourai, and The Godfather refashioned in the brothers’ comically bloody hand."

"When I recommend HUBIE HALLOWEEN to you rabidly and over-zealously—when I hum with the sweet shocked shout of an Almond Joy with two (!) almonds—what I mean is: at our most puerile and sensitive and fearful we are just as deserving of care as anybody else. Will you remember that?"

"I kept thinking to myself how clear it was that this film was made by someone deeply, deeply in love with the art of cinema, that the eye behind it is one that loves its medium. There’s nothing random here, nothing wasted." "It’s a film full of small acts of love."

"Every shot in COLUMBUS exudes an intentionality which is controlled but not controlling, each scene an austere but life-filled canvas."

"Maybe what draws you to deep space is this species of terror: evidence of your vulnerability, but also of a primal intelligence inside you, a reminder that you’re still a feral animal somewhere within this misshapen human form."

btw we don’t “experiment” with AI, we just absolutely do not allow it. everything is human made in our little corner of the world

“ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND is a Rubik’s Cube of memory, love, loss, and regret that collapses in on itself only to become stronger in the end. It’s clever yet tender—a near impossible line to walk—jumping off endless narrative cliffs & finding its wings on the way down.”

"So prominent is the problem of whether and how to explain MULHOLLAND DRIVE, that nearly any attempt to interpret the film ends up using the film to debate interpretation."

"If many of Steven Spielberg’s films are marathon novels, DUEL is a sonnet—it has room to play because of its formal constraints."

What a brilliant and beautiful piece this is. A pleasure to read and think about.